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Illegally Dead
David Wishart
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Description for Illegally Dead
Paperback. The twelfth Marcus Corvinus mystery from the leading Roman crime writer in the industry. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 119 x 17. Weight in Grams: 144.
When Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was terminally ill: it was only a matter of time. Although he hasn't any official investigative status, Corvinus can't resist doing a little amateur sleuthing. And he has barely begun when two other corpses turn up and he is formally on the case. Lucius had been suffering something of a personality change because of ... Read more
When Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was terminally ill: it was only a matter of time. Although he hasn't any official investigative status, Corvinus can't resist doing a little amateur sleuthing. And he has barely begun when two other corpses turn up and he is formally on the case. Lucius had been suffering something of a personality change because of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340840399
SKU
V9780340840399
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About David Wishart
David Wishart studied Classics at Edinburgh University. He then taught Latin and Greek in school for four years and after this retrained as a teacher of EFL. He lived and worked abroad for eleven years, working in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia, and now lives with his wife and family in Scotland.
Reviews for Illegally Dead
Wishart's investigator pinches his conversation style and hardboiled wisecracking from classic Hollywood noir, which adds a charming incongruity to this entertaining whodunit. A sinuous plot and robustly drawn characters, including an uppity slave and a formidable widow, all add piquancy to this stew of small-town misdemeanours.
Financial Times
This is a good, racy account of life in Roman ... Read more
Financial Times
This is a good, racy account of life in Roman ... Read more